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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

G. K. Chesterton

The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

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